Alcoholism On Native American Reservations

1. Alcoholism On Native American Reservations By: Tori Hastings

2. AA On Native American Reservations This program addresses the problem of alcoholism and binge drinking that is common on Native American reservations. The objective of my program is to provide therapy and clinics promoting rehabilitation and a healthy lifestyle to the individuals struggling with this disease and overall to decrease the number of people who binge drink.

3. Population: This population sample was taken from surveys from National Surveys on Drug Use and Health and can be found on (http://www.samhsa.gov/data/2k10/182/AmericanIndian.htm). This data compares alcohol use from the past month among Native Americans who are 18 years or older and compares it to the national mean from 2004 to 2008.

4. Population: This population sample was taken from surveys from National Surveys on Drug Use and Health and found on (http://www.samhsa.gov/data/2k10/182/AmericanIndian.htm). This data compares binge alcohol use from the previous month among Native Americans who are 18 years or older and compares it to the national mean from 2004 to 2008.

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7. Logical Approach Literature Review “The Indian Health Service Approach to Alcoholism Among American Indians and Alaska Natives” Provides a mapping of Indian Health Service’s efforts to prevent alcohol abuse on Indian reservations. The article puts alcoholism on Indian reservations into perspective by stating, "although the mortality rate from alcoholism is about four times greater for the American Indian population than for the entire U.S. population, it decreased from 54.5 per 100,000 population to 26.1 between 1978 and 1985- a reduction of 52 percent.”

8. Literature Review Continued “Homelessness, Alcoholism and Ethnic Discrimination among Alaska Natives,” discusses the outcome of a study conducted by Robert Travis that offers an explanation behind the escalating homeless population in Anchorage. Travis states, “I estimate that 86% of homeless Alaska Natives can be classified as either chronic alcoholics or binge drinkers. Of these 54% reported growing up in families where the father, the mother, or both drank as much or more than homeless Alaska Natives now drink.”

9. Literature Review Continued “Change: Trendlines: Native Americans and Higher Education: New Mood of Optimism” discusses Native Americans and higher education. This article proposes the idea of tribal colleges being fully funded by the government to better the lifestyles and future of Native Americans. “The barriers for young Indians seeking a degree are formidable. Reservations are isolated, chronically neglected regions with depressingly persistent problems like alcoholism and unemployment; from them, college seems a distant opportunity.”

10. Works Cited Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teching. Change: Trendlines: Native American and Higher Education: New Mood of Optimism.” Change 22:1 (January- February 1990): 27-30.JSTOR. http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lemoyne.edu/stable/pdfplus/10.2307/40177677.pdf?acceptTC=true Rhoades, Everett R., Russel D. Mason, Phyllis Eddy, Eva M. Smith, and Thomas R. Burns. “The Indian Health Service Approach to Alcoholism among American Indians and Alaska Natives.” Association of Schools of Public Health 103:6 (November- December 1988): 621-627. JSTOR. http://jstor.org/stable/4628553. Travis, Robert. “Homelessness, Alcoholism, and Ethnic Discrimination among Alaska Natives.” Arctic Institute of North America 44:3 (September 1991): 247-253. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40511246.

14. Results • My program is not statistically significant because .05<.481. • Conclusion: My program did not work because the number of Native Americans that binge drink increased after my program, rather than decrease.